Market Risk Manager

Overview

In this Market Risk Manager role, you will manage risk coverage for global Commercial and Institutional Capital Markets, working on a trading floor with close collaboration across trading, structuring, and senior stakeholders. You will implement risk appetites, monitor adherence, and escalate breaches while challenging strategies at portfolio and deal levels. The role offers exposure to markets, liquidity drivers, and risk models, with opportunities to influence the risk framework and engage across risk, finance, and quants teams. You will work to protect the firm’s position while enabling fair client outcomes, contributing to a high-impact risk function in a large multinational bank.

Responsibilities

• Implement risk appetites and monitor adherence; escalate breaches
• Review and challenge trading strategies at portfolio and deal level; highlight issues and unusual activity
• Support development of risk appetite and market risk limit framework
• Develop knowledge of financial markets, liquidity management, and income drivers
• Review trade proposals and non-standard deal documents; advise on approvals
• Review operation of risk models and contribute to methodology improvements
• Coordinate between market risk, business, finance, and quants stakeholders

Key requirements

• Formal banking qualification or equivalent professional experience with relevant accreditation
• Technical expertise in credit and rates products (vanilla and structured)
• Clear, confident communication across seniority levels
• Driven, independent, able to enhance existing processes
• Extensive knowledge of one or more market risk asset classes (rates, credit)
• Ability to understand complex deals to balance client outcomes with firm protection
• Ability to plan and organize workload to meet productivity and service standards

• clear communication
• driven and independent
• collaboration across teams
• credit products
• rates products
• market risk asset classes

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